[Asterisk-Users] Avaya Partner ACS system, pre 7.0

[C F]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:25:11 -0500, Steve Kann <stevek at stevek.com> wrote:
>  C F wrote: 
>  It realy depends what you are trying to accomplish, if all you want to do
> is add more extensions that happen to be offnet using VoIP, then you could
> just add analog extensions, and use FXO in * and then IP phones in the
> remote offices. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:31:16 -0800, Sean Kennedy
> <skennedy at tpno-co.org> wrote: 
>  Hi all, I've got an old avaya partner acs <7.0 system here. I'd like to add
> a simple voip bridge so I can hook up our remote offices. From my research,
> it would seem the pre-7.0 series doesn't have a t1 port, so if I wanted to
> do this, I would have to feed the avaya system fxs ports from the asterisk
> box. Does that sound about right? Has anybody ever done this? Does anybody
> have any experiences they'd like to share in this area? Sean We had to add
> Data and Voice for 20 users in a remote office (about 8 miles in the same
> town), we were using an Avaya Difinity G3. So we got a leased data line
> (Full T1), using 2 Adit 600 (not even Asterisk involved) boxes, configured
> with 24 FXS ports on one of the Adit boxes, adn 24 FXO ports on the other,
> and a 24 port station card on the Avaya Difinity, got us everything done.
> However this only allowed us to use analog phones (yikes), since the
> Difinity doesn't support E & M. But it is still running fine. Why didn't you
> just get a T1 card for the definity?
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Becuase we wanted the Definity to see the remote phones as extensions,
and not as trunks. It would mike life misreable the other way around.

To Sean:
>From what you describe it looks like it is much better to get rid of
your Avaya box (put it on eBay, and let it collect some $800).